“Race music was their way of segregating Black artists from being mainstream, because they didn’t want their kids listening to music created by Black and brown people because they said it was demonic and yada, yada, yada,” she told the publication.
Article source: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lizzo-talks-racist-origin-of-pop-music-in-new-interview_uk_638328dde4b09a86b1b3f271